Pretentious People - Do You Know Any?

[DVCLiz]

A house in my town has been torn down and is being rebuilt for new owners - it is on a corner lot. The old address, while nice enough, is a busy street and less prestigious than the side street of the lot, which is a quiet neighborhood street that leads into the most desirable neighborhood in town. The new owners are turning the house so it faces the more prestigious street, giving them the street address of the "better" street which not changing the location of the house in any way. The house is being built on the lot in an odd manner to accommodate a much bigger house and a two car garage.

I find this so pretentious!! Do they think if they rename their street address people will think the house moved locations? Anyone driving by can see they simply turned the house so it faced the better street. In doing so they lost the charm of the lot and just crammed a big house in a weird location so it loses any charm it had.

Another acquaintance once told me she and her husband were moving because he had grown up on and always wanted to move back to "the water." The water in question is a large retention pond/small lake for an industrial plant - not the Atlantic Ocean or one of the Great Lakes lol.

Do you know anybody who does this?

 

[DeaverTex]

Yes, I'm sorry to say. I do.

 

[minnie mum]

Are you really sure that the people in question are doing this solely to have a 'better' address, or are they doing it in order to accommodate the new house design?

 

[Sunnywho]

Yes! I have one friend who has always been like this. What can you do. We aren't close.

If they were going to rebuild the house anyway, it's something of a nobrainer to do it on the better street if that raises the value of the house. That's not necessarily pretentious, that could be real estate smarts.

 

[GigglyFigment]

Are you really sure that the people in question are doing this solely to have a 'better' address, or are they doing it in order to accommodate the new house design?

That and they might own two cars that they'd like to keep in a garage rather than outside in the elements. Or just one car and want extra space to do/store stuff in the garage.

 

[Robbi]

Wouldn't bother me and yes I do know pretentious people.
OP, maybe the homeowners real estate value will go up by turning the house.

 

[MagicallyDelicious]

Real estate is all about location. If it helps with resale, then yeah, I guess I'd do it too, if I were rebuilding it from the ground up.

With that said, I know plenty of pretentious people. It's about what they drive, and the labels they wear. They're the first people to overcompensate with telling you how much something costs, or how much they have. It doesn't impress me in the least. I think it speaks more of a lack of class.

 

[Allison]

You said two different things-they turned the house because of the address and that it sets where it does because of the size.

So, do you know that the address is the reason? Just curious if they actually said that.

 

[Hrhpd]

A house in my town has been torn down and is being rebuilt for new owners - it is on a corner lot. The old address, while nice enough, is a busy street and less prestigious than the side street of the lot, which is a quiet neighborhood street that leads into the most desirable neighborhood in town. The new owners are turning the house so it faces the more prestigious street, giving them the street address of the "better" street which not changing the location of the house in any way. The house is being built on the lot in an odd manner to accommodate a much bigger house and a two car garage.

I find this so pretentious!! Do they think if they rename their street address people will think the house moved locations? Anyone driving by can see they simply turned the house so it faced the better street. In doing so they lost the charm of the lot and just crammed a big house in a weird location so it loses any charm it had.

Another acquaintance once told me she and her husband were moving because he had grown up on and always wanted to move back to "the water." The water in question is a large retention pond/small lake for an industrial plant - not the Atlantic Ocean or one of the Great Lakes lol.

Do you know anybody who does this?

First of all, The Rule.

While I know pretentious people, the house does not sound pretentious at all. It sounds smart. Not only are they gaining a more sought after address for resale, they are also now going to face a much quieter street.

Anybody would be a fool to put their front door back on a busy street when they had the opportunity to put it on a much quieter street.

As for the two car garage, that is market too. Houses with 2 car garages resell much better than one car garages.

And one person's charm is another's nightmare. Just because you think the charm of the lot was lost, the owners obviously think differently. Personally, I think a house facing a quieter street has much more charm and value than a house facing a busy street.

Sounds like the new owners are very smart and savvy. Doesn't sound pretentious at all.

 

[Buckalew11]

I'm not sure turning that house makes those people pretentious.

I've known many pretentious people. I avoid them like the plague. lol

I remember when I had DD. "Are you sending her to ___day school? Because, you know, if you don't send her there, she won't get into college." lol, yeah right lady.

 

[paintnolish]

Absolutely! The worst example requires a really long story (it was a thread her on the Dis, too), but it was a high school friend who basically wanted to back out of being my matron of honor. She tried to be nice about it, but I knew the real reasons and after years of her nonsense, I told her never to contact me again.

 

[Jennasis]

Does changing the way the house faces actually change the address of THE LOT? if there was no house on the lot it would still have the address of the original street. I don't think the orientation of the home has any bearing on that. HOWEVER, perhaps they applied for a permit or a change to the lot to give it the address of the side street instead.

 

[Art 1]

A house in my town has been torn down and is being rebuilt for new owners - it is on a corner lot. The old address, while nice enough, is a busy street and less prestigious than the side street of the lot, which is a quiet neighborhood street that leads into the most desirable neighborhood in town. The new owners are turning the house so it faces the more prestigious street, giving them the street address of the "better" street which not changing the location of the house in any way. The house is being built on the lot in an odd manner to accommodate a much bigger house and a two car garage.

I find this so pretentious!! Do they think if they rename their street address people will think the house moved locations? Anyone driving by can see they simply turned the house so it faced the better street. In doing so they lost the charm of the lot and just crammed a big house in a weird location so it loses any charm it had.

Another acquaintance once told me she and her husband were moving because he had grown up on and always wanted to move back to "the water." The water in question is a large retention pond/small lake for an industrial plant - not the Atlantic Ocean or one of the Great Lakes lol.

Do you know anybody who does this?

They sound pretty smart to me.

 

[Gumbo4x4]

Does changing the way the house faces actually change the address of THE LOT? if there was no house on the lot it would still have the address of the original street. I don't think the orientation of the home has any bearing on that. HOWEVER, perhaps they applied for a permit or a change to the lot to give it the address of the side street instead.

This.


I'm curious what about moving to the water is pretentious. Maybe the guy likes to fish. Doesn't it seem a bit pretentious to look down on his retention lake as being inferior to the oceans or great lakes?

 

[NFLDERS]

Yes, I'm sorry to say. I do.

And unfortunately, one couple whom were shown to our table on a cruise. Neither we nor the other couple requested to be seated at a 4-top But, she took one look at DH and I and announced for all to hear, not here!

They turned out to be, one of the most pretentious couples we have ever met.

 

[Gumbo4x4]

And unfortunately, one couple whom were shown to our table on a cruise. Neither we nor the other couple requested to be seated at a 4-top But, she took one look at DH and I and announced for all to hear, not here!

They turned out to be, one of the most pretentious couples we have ever met.

You should have offered to swap gum with them, right from your mouth - just to see the reaction.

 

[DVCLiz]

LOL only on the DIS .

They aren't going to avoid the busy street - they'll just watch the cars from their side windows instead of their front windows. It just made me laugh when I drove by.

Our friends on "the water" spoke about it as though they had full access to a flotilla of watercraft - in reality the water area is small and no boating, no fishing, no swimming is allowed. It is simply an area that holds water for mechanical cooling purposes.

 

[DVCLiz]

Double post.

 

[Allison]

Well, I would rather watch the cars from the side street than the front street. I don't think that makes me pretentious.

 

[jdb in AZ]

And unfortunately, one couple whom were shown to our table on a cruise. Neither we nor the other couple requested to be seated at a 4-top But, she took one look at DH and I and announced for all to hear, not here!

They turned out to be, one of the most pretentious couples we have ever met.

A nephew was concerned about going on a family cruise because he was afraid rich snobs would be onboard. I coulda woulda shoulda told him that he didn't need to look any further than his mother-in-law and her daughters to find uppity snobs.

DH and I did have to share a DCL cruise table with a pretentious woman (not a rellie.) She thought she knew everything about DCL, and it was quite annoying to those of us who actually do.